One of the many benefits of working with the Adobe Production Premium suite is the seamless manner in which applications work together.

For example, you can easily send assets from Premiere Pro to After Effects to add additional effects or animation. Those changes will automatically update back in Premiere Pro, all without the need to export. This is a huge timesaver.

In Premiere Pro select the clips you’d like to send to After Effects.

Right-click and choose Replace With After Effects Composition (also found in the File > Adobe Link menu).

A new composition will appear in your currently opened After Effects project.

If you switch back to Premiere Pro (Command-Tab), you’ll notice that the clips you selected have now been replaced with an After Effects composition.

Any changes you now make in After Effects—either adding effects or animations—will automatically be updated in Premiere Pro.

Save your work in both applications before quitting.

Next time you open Premiere Pro make sure your After Effects project file is in the same directory where you originally saved it. Otherwise your linked composition will appear offline in Premiere Pro.

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Can you discuss a dynamic linking workflow for an animator and editor working on separate machines using shared storage. We have tried but in order to see animaton changes in premiere we have to close out the premiere project and reopen it. There is no real time updating across systems.

http://mediastorm.com Joe Fuller

Dynamic linking is for seamless interaction between Premiere and AfterEffects on the same system.

Premiere CS6 is going to be looking to a specific file for updates so maybe keep that as “filename_sync” or “_master.” The animator on another computer can work in iterations but upload a file to the network named “filename_sync” – or whatever you decide. The Editor will take that file and drag it to their local system. They’ll close whatever version of the file they have open on their computer without quitting after effects. They’ll replace the sync file in their directory with the new one and open that file in after effects. If they save again it should update their premier file. Premier will want to render things again.